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Show FINDS! RICH VEIN OF GOLD IN DEATH VALLEY Old Time Prospector Nearly Loses His Life but Returns Re-turns With a Sack of Ore. Joe Lather,, an old-timer in Nevada, who has been through the Death valley for the past three months, passed through town this week en route to Laramie., where his son resides and is a wealthy oil man, says the Caliente Progress. The old prospector says this is his last trip, as it came near being his last venture ven-ture on this sphere. He went north into in-to the bad lands 160 miles and struck a magnificent ledge of free gold, of sparkling spark-ling white quartz, which runs northwesterly north-westerly and southeasterly across the 'alley. Jagged and reflecting the sun's rau V?r mlle" diant He started with w-nat he thought was an abundant sup-Fly sup-Fly of water and provisions, four burros bur-ros and a complete outfit, having been staked by his son to the trip. ' He returned minus burros, worn to a shadow with fighting sand storms and thirst his provisions left somewhere on the desert barely able to see. and nearly near-ly deaf from exposure to storm and the disasters which overtook him. All through, however, he clung to a buckskin buck-skin sack of ore -which is half gold. The quarts stuck in pieces of gold rather than the gold in the quartz,, and he says he has located four claims on a two-foot vein of this ore. He found a cavern one noon in the rocks and went inside to escape the torrid rays of the sun and found that the same had been cut by the hand of man Instead of nature's na-ture's handiwork, and after examining It for about fifty feet, found that at some time in the dim past a two-foot ledge of the rich ore had been discovered discov-ered and ore to this extent extracted. He found inside the cave or tunnel two stone hammers bound to wooden handles with deer or horse hide, a number num-ber of arrow heads and several stone calabashes, which led him to believe that the work had been done at a very distant date, and perhaps before the dread Death valley had been entirely barren. These he brought back with him. in addition to the gold, which latter lat-ter he values at about $500. He proposes to organize a party to go in and take up afl the ground possible possi-ble and then retire on his laurels after over fifty years of battle with Dame Fortune in the unequal struggle for wealth. |